Brush attachment for hair clipper



May 18, 1965 Du o -r 3,183,591

B RUSH ATTACHMENT FOR HAIR CLIPPER Filed March 20, 1963 INVENTOR.

FRANCIS A. DUMONT ATTORNEYS United States Patent 3,183,591 BRUSH ATTACHMENT FQR HAIR CLIPPER Francis A. Dumont, 163 Cornell St, Cranston, RJ. Filed Mar. 20, 1963, Ser. No. 266,563 4 Claims. (Cl. 30-123) serve to raise the hair from between the bars of a guide in the use of the hair clipper. There is also an arrangement so that the driving motor for the hair clipper may also serve to rotate a cylindrical brush mounted on the attachmerit.

One of the objects of this invention is to provide an attachment for a power actuated hair clipper for the mounting of a brush or brushes on the clipper so as to especially adapt it for use with a hair guide such as illustrated in my patent application, Serial No. 166,748.

Another object of this invention is to provide an attachment for a hair clipper for mounting a plurality of brushes so located that nonpowered brushes will feed to a power actuated brush so that together they will lift the hair from between the bars of a haircutting guide so that the same may be easily clipped.

Another object of the invention is to provide an arrangement so that a brush may be powered from the motor of the hair clipper.

With these and other objects in View, the invention consists of certain novel features of construction as will be more fully described and particularly pointed out in the appended claims.

In the accompanying drawings:

FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a hair clipper with my attachment mounted thereon;

FIG. 2 is a perspective view of one of the brushes mounted on the bracket attachment;

FIG. 3 is a perspective view of another of the brushes mounted on the bracket attachment;

FIG. 4 is a perspective view of a fragmental portion of the hair clipper alone;

FIG. 5 is a perspective view of the attachment alone which is assembled with the clipper for mounting the brushes therein; and

FIG. 6 is a perspective View of a third brush mounted on the attachment.

in proceeding with this invention, I provide from sheet stock a bracket which is bent up in such a shape that it may he slipped on over the fixed cutting plates of the clipper, this device being so shaped that it will slide into engagement with the opposite edges of this plate and grip it, and extending from this device there are portions in which various brushes may be mounted to assist in lifting the hair from between the haircutting guide for the clipping of the hair which extends through the guide by the cutting part of the clipper.

With reference to the drawings, 10 designates the casing of a clipper comprising a fixed plate 11 and a reciprocating plate 9 which has the usual cutters from its front portion which is powered by an electric motor within the casing obtaining electric current through a cord l2 adapted to be inserted or receive electric power from any suitable socket.

A bracket designated generally 1 is bent up in the shape shown in FIG. 5 so as to provide a body plate 15 with flanges l6 and 17 extending at generally right angles to the plane of the plate. As these flanges are bent from the stock of the body 15, grooves as at it; and it? are Patented May 18, 1965 provided so that the plate 11 of the cutter may be slid into these grooves and be held resiliently yet firmly on the casing ill. The flanges l6 and 17 also have lugs 20 bent from the edges thereof which serve as a stop to limit the insertion of the bracket 14 onto the cutting plate ll of the clipper.

Bearing openings 21 are provided in one portion of the flanges l6 and 17 for the mounting of a power actuated brush 22 shown by itself in FIG. 3. This brush is generally cylindrical in shape built around an axle 23 which axle extends into and finds a bearing in the openings 21 of the flange or in some tubular hearing which may be inserted in this opening 21 and provide a bearing for the axle 23, such tubular part being indicated at 24 in FIG. 3.

In order to rotate this cylindrical brush 22, I have provided a shaft 25 which is suitably flattened at one of its ends to be received in a correspondingly shaped socket in the end of axle 23, while at the other end this shaft is similarly flattened as at 26 so as to be inserted into an opening in the casing 10 and engage a rotating part within this casing driven by the motor which drives the cutter blade 9 of the clipper. The clipper is modified to the extent of providing a drive for this shaft through the side wall of the casing. In order to protect this rotating flexible shaft from contact, a sleeve 27 is provided which has a collar 28 at one end and 29 at the other end equipped with some sort of a snap fastening engagement 3t) and 31 so as to snap into the opening 33 of the box 32 at the brush end. This box-like part 32 may contain reduction gears as may be required for driving the brush 22 at a slower speed.

The flanges l6 and 17 are also provided with hearing openings 35 in which a second cylindrical brush 36 is mounted. This brush has axles 37 which may be mounted either directly in the bearing openings 35 or in sleeves 35; which in turn may be mounted in the bearing openings 35. This brush is not powered but is located at such a point that movement of the clipper will cause it to rotate and assist in feeding the hairs from between the guide bars of the haircutting guide to the rotary brush which in turn directs them to the cutter portion of the clipper.

Additionally, there is a third brush 4d, the bristles of which are bound at their roots as at 41 and which is adapted to be held along the flat surface of the body portion 15 of the bracket 14. This holding may be by means of spring clips 42 bent from the stock of the plate 14 so as to extend about the roots of the bristles at their base portion 41. The insertion of this base portion of the brush may be limited by the stop 43 bent from the edge 44 of the body plate 15. In order to further hold this brush in position, screws 45 may be utilized passing through the body plate 15 into the brush base or against the brush base so as to force it against the spring clips 42 and apply greater tension.

I claim:

1. A removable attachment for a power hair clipper having a fixed cutting plate comprising a body plate, resilient flanges extending therefrom shaped and spaced to slidably receive and frictionally grip said cutting plate as slid thereto hold the attachment in position, and a flat brush secured on said body plate and a cylindrical brush rotatably mounted in said spaced flanges.

2. A removable attachment for a power hair clipper as in claim 1 and means to rotate said cylindrical brush about its axis.

3. Apower driven hair clipper as in claim 1 wherein a casing embraces said driving motor and said shaft is detachably connected to said driving motor through said casing.

4. A power driven hair clipper having a fixed cutter plate and a iovable cutter plate movable relative to the fixed cutter plate, a driving motor for said movable cutter plate, a removable attachment comprising a body plate, resilient flanges extending from said body plate shaped and spaced to slidably receive and frictionally grip said cutting plate as slid thereon to hold the attachment in position, a cylindrical brush rotatably mounted by said flanges on an axis parallel to the cutting edge of said cutting plate and a shaft driven by said driving motor and connected to said cylindrical brush to rotate the same when operating said movable cutter plate.

References Zited by the Examiner UNITED STATES PATENTS 1,713,184 5/29 Lang 15-328 1,713,274 5/29 Fitzgerald 15-400 1,752,803 4/30 Morgal 15-328 201,367 15 WILLIAM Wintercorn 30-342 X Morrison 74-11 X Forsberg 15-400 X Scully 30-342 Scully 30-342 Scully 30-342 Scully 30-342 Miller 30-342 Smith 30-90 Reliford 74-11 X Wolf 30-90 FOREIGN PATENTS Switzerland. 

1. REMOVABLE ATTACHMENT FOR A POWER HAIR CLIPPER HAVING A FIXED CUTTING PLATE COMPRISING A BODY PLATE, RESILIENT FLANGES EXTENDING THEREFROM SHAPED AND SPACED TO SLIDABLY RECEIVE AND FRICTIONALLY GRIP SAID CUTTING PLATE AS SLID THERETO HOLD THE ATTACHMENT IN POSITION, AND A FLAT BRUSH SECURED ON SAID BODY PLATE AND A CYLINDRICAL BRUSH ROTATABLY MOUNTED IN SAID SPACED FLANGES 